California Regional Mental Health System Coalition Selects Netsmart Technologies For $1.9 Million, Nine County Management Infor
August 16 2006 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Multi-county System to Utilize Comprehensive Clinical and Practice
Management Software GREAT RIVER, N.Y., Aug. 16
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:NTST), a leading provider of enterprise-wide software for
health and human services organizations, announced today that it
has been awarded a contract totaling nearly $1.9 million by the
California Regional Mental Health System Coalition Joint Powers
Authority (JPA). The five-year agreement calls for the use of
Netsmart's Avatar Practice Management and Clinician Workstation
software by nine county mental health organizations in the JPA.
Counties that will utilize Netsmart software and related services
include Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Inyo, Modoc,
Mono and Shasta. These counties will use Avatar to facilitate key
processes, including client scheduling and tracking, clinical
assessment, treatment planning and claims authorizations. "The
selection of Netsmart is the result of an extensive three-year
evaluation of a number of software providers based on a wide
variety of criteria," said Dale Jarvis, managing consultant of MCPP
Healthcare Consulting, Inc., which oversaw the project. "The
end-result of this project will be to help county mental health
agencies provide even more timely, high-quality care to those
seeking mental health services and enhance the efficiency of the
entire process, from scheduling to treatment to billing." The
Avatar software will be provided in an application service provider
(ASP) environment, eliminating the need for the counties to
maintain hardware and information technology infrastructure related
to the Netsmart software. In addition, under its ASP+ program
Netsmart will offer additional data center services for managing
state reporting and billing compliance activities, utilizing its
Service Bureau in Great River, New York. "We're pleased to be
selected by the JPA to provide the software and services designed
to support mental health and substance abuse treatment services in
this time of increasing demands for accountability and
interoperability," said James Gargiulo, Netsmart executive vice
president, Clients and Solutions. "This agreement expands our
presence in California as a trusted partner to behavioral and
public health organizations throughout the state for more than 20
years." For more information about Netsmart Technologies solutions,
call 800-421-7503 or visit http://www.ntst.com/ . About Netsmart
Technologies, Inc. Netsmart Technologies, Inc., based in Great
River, New York, is an established, leading supplier of
enterprise-wide software solutions for health and human services
providers, with more than 1,300 customers, including more than 30
systems with state agencies. Netsmart's customers include health
and human services organizations, public health agencies, mental
health and substance abuse clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and
managed care organizations. Netsmart's products are full-featured
information systems that operate on a variety of operating systems,
hardware platforms, and mobile devices, and offer unlimited
scalability. Statement on Behalf of Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
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DATASOURCE: Netsmart Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Dave Kishler, of
Netsmart Technologies, +1-614-932-6723, Web site:
http://www.ntst.com/
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